Liquid metal combinatorics toward materials discovery

D Wang, J Ye, Y Bai, F Yang, J Zhang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Liquid metals and their derivatives provide several opportunities for fundamental and
practical exploration worldwide. However, the increasing number of studies and shortage of …

Attributes, fabrication, and applications of gallium‐based liquid metal particles

Y Lin, J Genzer, MD Dickey - Advanced Science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This work discusses the attributes, fabrication methods, and applications of gallium‐based
liquid metal particles. Gallium‐based liquid metals combine metallic and fluidic properties at …

Surface chemistry of gallium-based liquid metals

Y Ding, M Zeng, L Fu - Matter, 2020 - cell.com
The surface of liquid metals plays a critical role in establishing thermodynamic equilibria
(both mass and energy) at the interface between liquid metal and air. The exploration on the …

Liquid metal–based soft microfluidics

L Zhu, B Wang, S Handschuh‐Wang, X Zhou - Small, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Motivated by the increasing demand of wearable and soft electronics, liquid metal (LM)‐
based microfluidics has been subjected to tremendous development in the past decade …

Liquid metal smart materials toward soft robotics

S Chen, HZ Wang, TY Liu, J Liu - Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Unlike conventional rigid machines, soft robots generally have unique operation styles that
rely heavily on soft matter engineering and smart material systems. Owing to the superior …

Liquid metal droplets enabled soft robots

L Zheng, S Handschuh‐Wang, Z Ye, B Wang - Applied Materials Today, 2022 - Elsevier
Soft robots have attracted significant interest due to their suitability for applications in a
variety of engineering and biomedical applications. Particularly, fluid-based soft robots, such …

Transformable soft liquid metal micro/nanomaterials

M Zhang, S Yao, W Rao, J Liu - Materials Science and Engineering: R …, 2019 - Elsevier
Liquid metal is a liquid-state metallic material with a low melting point at or around room
temperature. Owing to their high thermal or electrical conductivity, low viscosity and superior …

Liquid metals and their hybrids as stimulus–responsive smart materials

L Ren, X Xu, Y Du, K Kalantar-Zadeh, SX Dou - Materials Today, 2020 - Elsevier
The re-emergence of room temperature liquid metals presents an exciting paradigm for an
ideal combination of metallic and fluidic properties. The unique fluid metal features of non …

Liquid metal transformable machines

H Wang, S Chen, B Yuan, J Liu… - Accounts of Materials …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Conventional robots can accomplish defined tasks but often encounter troubles
when handling irregular objects under unstructured environments. Soft robots, with …

Advances in liquid metal-enabled flexible and wearable sensors

Y Ren, X Sun, J Liu - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
Sensors are core elements to directly obtain information from surrounding objects for further
detecting, judging and controlling purposes. With the rapid development of soft electronics …